The last couple of debates have been painful to watch. Seeing Michele Bachmann hanging on for dear life, Mitt Romney looking more like a televangelist than a guy who could be our next president (it's the hair) and Rick Perry slowly, but ever so surely, melting down...

A town in Michigan has deemed a local tea party group called "Common Sense Patriots of Branch County" as too controversial. After you read the article below, it will become painfully clear that this community's leaders, most specifically it's city manager, just don't get it: the First Amendment applies to conservatives as well as liberals and those in between...

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